MegaPoints Controllers
System2 Panel Controller User Reference
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D 0-7
Data field of the packed (D0 – D7).
V-Port
Decoded V-Port the message is intended for.
The Network Monitor will only display packets created by remote boards. It will not display packets
that are locally transmitted.
The local board that is running the packet monitor remains fully operational while the packet
monitor is running. It will respond to events in its usual manner.
The data fields (D0-7) will be covered in separate documentation and are data type dependent.
In the above screen shot you can see network packets that were triggered by a button being pushed
twice, once to turn on and again to turn off.
Under the V-Port column observe the following events that occurred at minute 17:
Header
Description
1
An event addressed to V-Port 1 is initiated from CAN ID 493.
161
An event is addressed to V-Port 161 from CAN ID 1000 (packet
duplicated).
321
An event is addressed to V-Port 321 from CAN ID 1000.
161
An event is addressed to V-Port 161 from CAN ID 1000 (packet
duplicated).
CAN ID 493 is a Panel Controller and looking at its configuration we observe V-Port 1 is a push button
attached to physical port 1:
So we know what created the packet, a button on physical port 1.
The next packet was created by Can ID 1000. Looking at the Status Log (below) we can see (1) this is
a Servo-8 board:
